Car handbrake snapped cable locked the rear wheel

On Saturday morning, I was supposed to drive to the office for server installation.

The morning I got into my car in my garage and found that the handbrake handle was down which I normally leave pulled up whenever I park the car.

It turned out that I could not pull the handle much up and trying to reverse the car out did not work either. After further investigation, it turned out that the left hanbrake cable had snapped and the mechanism at the left rear wheel broke. Somehow the result of this locked the wheel. On the upside, nobody will steal the car except by towing it. The trouble is to get a mechanic to come.

The car is a Mazda 323 hatchback from 1998

Weird nightmare with zombies

Early this morning sometime between 4AM and 5AM (I woke up at those times), I had a weird nightmare about zombies.

The dream started with me getting a ride by car from one town to another. While driving, another car came closer and a shootout started, the driver was a zombie partially hanging out of the window to shoot. The car came up next to the car I was in and shots were passed back and forth, then it fell back.

Suddenly the car slowed down because there was a big group of people walking slowly all over the road and next to it like cattle. All of them were zombies as well. After that the car picked up speed again.

In the next section of the dream I was lying at home in bed and waking up from the outside door of the kitchen opening. From my bed I can see that door which is between 5 and ten meters away. Through the door came a zombie because I forgot to lock the door before I fell asleep. In my dream I woke up trying to grab anything to use as a club that I could get hold of while still lying quietly on my bed. At that stage, I finally woke up and it was as dark as in the dream.

Dangerous Cape Town drivers

This last weekend I observed two incidents where drivers in Cape Town were driving dangerously.

One case was as follows:

In the 80km/h zone on the N1, I moved one lane to the right while keeping a good following distance to the car in front of me, but not big enough to fit another car including a good following distance. I was driving just under, but close to the speed limit.

The next moment a car was trying to squeeze into the gap in front of me, but coming so that our cars would collide. The car was also not using indicators. Shortly after this the car was rapidly changing lanes and driving much faster than other cars.

At the traffic light ahead with the left turn that same car was yet again pushing others to the side. They mostly moved to prevent accidents. A bit further ahead after the turn on Oswald Pirow street, I caught up with it at the traffic light.

Once the traffic light went green every car started moving except for that one, which took a while to start. When it finally started, it went speeding up the bridge ahead that goes over the railway tracks and past Cape Town station to the traffic light with Good Hope Centre on the left.

That traffic light has two lanes going right which end up in two lanes. The traffic light was red and that car was on the right lane and another one on the left, both wanted to turn right. When the traffic light turned green, that car started to change lanes in the turn on to the left lane and forcing the car on the left lane to brake to prevent a collision. After this it started speeding up and I lost track of it because I was still approaching the traffic light at a distance which was about to turn red again.